One thing that remains normal in the world is the SPDX General Meeting. This month Kate Stewart will be reviewing what’s new in the just-buttoned-up 2.2 release. GENERAL MEETING Meeting

Hi all, The SPDX 2.2 specification is now in the final 2 week public review window. The SPDX tech-list participants have been working on polishing it for the last couple of months and adding in

This would be a good time to note that folks who care about their software freedom cannot effectively participate in SPDX, and not only because the conferencing solution is proprietary software

Quoting Jeremiah C. Foster (2020-04-15 18:57:24) For the pragmatic angle of "does it work reliably" I agree that Jitsi is a viable option. Any conferencing service _can_ become unreliable when

I've used Jitsi meet a bit and it is pretty decent too; https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet One caveat with tools that use WebRTC - there is no E2E encryption yet in the protocol. Matrix however does

What: The Linux Foundation will be moving wiki.spdx.org to new infrastructure When: Sunday, April 19, 2020 @ 19:00 to 20:00 UTC Why: Improving capacity and reliability of underlying

"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...> writes: Yeah, FSF is running an instance that is being used to successfully teach classes at MIT right now. We'll post more about it soon,

Wow that's a blast from the early part of this millenium. Since Linux now runs over 80% of the world's computing resources, I thought we'd got over stigmatizing people who actually run it on their

The good folks at FSFE maintain a wiki page with Free Software alternatives: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeSoftware4RemoteWorking I should point out that in the SPDX calls we don't actually

wrote: So no app for Linux then? As you can appreciate, a lot of us have now been evaluating a whole range of video conference technologies and one of the empirical rules I've been seeing is that

Jumping in randomly: would be super interested in exploring this for OpenChain if that’s on the table. Shane

I've used the Linux Zoom client nearly every day for a few weeks now, and less often for several months before that. It's been seamless for all the core talk-and-watch functionality. It does lag a

One of the benefits of using Zoom is its native Linux client. Does Chime offer a Linux client? If not, I think it is kinda weird (given the year of the Linux desktop) to use something that isn't

Hi Mark, Thanks for the generous offer. :-) We're not paying for zoom, however I'm definitely up for doing an experiment during our spdx-tech meeting tomorrow, and if it works for the regular

Hi Kate and other SPDX folk, We have been using Zoom to provide teleconference for SPDX meetings. In light of recent events, Zoom has gotten very popular, and also been failing many security audits,

A great meeting with great attendance. Please volunteer or suggest a guest speaker for next time. Anything SPDX related is fair game.

We’ll be pleased to welcome “professor-turned-technocrat” Allan Friedman, the Director of Cybersecurity at NTIA. He is at the center of NTIA’s effort to standard a software BOM and an SPDX

Hello all, Following from Jilayne's email earlier this month, the legal team has now finalized and posted the update to the license inclusion principles for the SPDX License List. The updated

Hi all, The SPDX legal team has its regular bi-weekly call tomorrow, Thursday at noon, Eastern Daylight Savings time (note: The US moved our clocks forward, but I believe the UK and Europe has yet to

Hi Kyle, Thanks for having a look. As to your question: we had a discussion on one of the many calls we discussed this topic and ran the hypothetical of what if there were no “rules” or the